Brett Cullum of DVD Verdict called it a good Barker adaptation that is "certainly worth checking out". Club called it "overwritten and more than a little pretentious". Scott Weinberg of Fearnet called it "a clever balancing act between basic scares, a creepy concept, and something a little more (dare I say) cerebral." Paul McCannibal of Dread Central rated it 4/5 stars and called it "a well made adaptation of the short story" that "is well worth your time." Dennis Harvey of Variety said that the film "intrigues, even if it doesn’t entirely satisfy". Reception Īllan Dart of Fangoria called it "a mixed but overall positive" adaptation of Barker's story. The film was released on 29 January 2010 in US Cinemas. It was announced that Dread would be included in the films in the fourth After Dark Horrorfest in 2010. The film had its world premiere at the 2009 Montreal Fantasia Festival, where it picked up a distributor in After Dark Films. The paintings in the film were created by Nicole Balzarini. The 104 page script was shot in just 28 days. He throws Stephen's body in along with a switchblade and says, "Let's see how hungry you have to be to get through that." He leaves her crying with Stephen's dead body with only a matter of time before she starts eating his flesh from hunger. He drags the body to a room in the basement, where Cheryl is. Quaid shoots Joshua, killing him, and watches Stephen die from the axe wound. He manages to break free but runs into Joshua, who stabs him with the fire axe. When Stephen confronts Quaid, Stephen is knocked out and awakens tied to a chair. Joshua follows him, assuming Stephen and Quaid are working together. He then goes after Quaid with a fire axe. Stephen finds her naked and bleeding and gets her to the hospital. Humiliated, Abby fills her bathtub with bleach and starts scrubbing off her skin with steel wool. Quaid sets up video footage of her stripping naked before sex on every TV on campus, showing her naked and covered in birth marks. Abby, another student, has a dark birthmark covering half her face and body, which she doesn't want anyone to see, terrified of being teased or shunned because of it. The following night, Quaid knocks him out and fires a gun next to his ears, shattering his eardrums and leaving him deaf again. Joshua is a student whose fear is becoming deaf again because he temporarily lost his hearing after a childhood accident. After about a week, she finally eats the entire piece of rotten beef. Quaid kidnaps her and locks her in a room with a slightly salted, well cooked steak on a plate. He worked at a meat-packing plant and smelled of meat while molesting her to this day, she can't stand the smell of meat and refuses to eat it. Stephen's brother had died while drunk-driving, and Stephen wonders if his brother would still be alive if he had driven instead.Ĭheryl, who is the project's editor, was molested by her father as a little girl. Quaid had seen his parents killed by an axe murderer as a child this is his greatest fear, and he wants to learn what others dread and how they deal with it, in order to find a way to defy his own dread. Quaid, however, is quite psychopathic and wants to take the fear to 'the next level'. At a small college, Quaid and his friend Stephen do a "fear study" as a school project, recording people talking about their greatest fears.
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